ASHRAE HandbookCD+2004-2007 

2007 HVAC APPLICATIONS 

COMFORT APPLICATIONS
 1. Residences
 2. Retail Facilities
 3. Commercial and Public Buildings
 4. Places of Assembly
 5. Hotels, Motels, and Dormitories
 6. Educational Facilities
 7. Health Care Facilities
 8. Justice Facilities
 9. Automobiles and Mass Transit
 10. Aircraft
 11. Ships

INDUSTRIAL APPLICATIONS
 12 . Industrial Air Conditioning
 13. Enclosed Vehicular Facilities
 14. Laboratories
 15. Engine Test Facilities
 16. Clean Spaces
 17. Data Processing and Electronic Office Areas
 18. Printing Plants
 19. Textile Processing Plants
 20. Photographic Materials
 21. Museums, Galleries, Archives, and Libraries
 22. Environmental Control for Animals and Plants
 23. Drying and Storing Selected Farm Crops
 24. Air Conditioning of Wood and Paper Product Facilities
 25. Power Plants
 26. Nuclear Facilities
 27. Mine Air Conditioning and Ventilation
 28. Industrial Drying Systems
 29. Ventilation of the Industrial Environment
 30. Industrial Local Exhaust Systems
 31. Kitchen Ventilation

ENERGY-RELATED APPLICATIONS
 32. Geothermal Energy
 33. Solar Energy Use
 34. Thermal Storage

BUILDING OPERATIONS AND MANAGEMENT
 35. Energy Use and Management
 36. Owning and Operating Costs
 37. Testing, Adjusting, and Balancing
 38. Operation and Maintenance Management
 39. Computer Applications
 40. Building Energy Monitoring
 41. Supervisory Control Strategies and Optimization
 42. HVAC Commissioning

GENERAL APPLICATIONS
 43. Building Envelopes
 44. Building Air Intake and Exhaust Design
 45. Control of Gaseous Indoor Air Contaminants
 46. Design and Application of Controls
 47. Sound and Vibration Control
 48. Water Treatment
 49. Service Water Heating
 50. Snow Melting and Freeze Protection
 51. Evaporative Cooling
 52. Fire and Smoke Management
 53. Radiant Heating and Cooling
 54. Seismic and Wind Restraint Design
 55. Electrical Considerations
 56. Room Air Distribution
 57. Integrated Building Design
 58. Chemical, Biological, Radiological, and Explosive Incidents
 59. Codes and Standards

2006 REFRIGERATION

REFRIGERATION SYSTEM PRACTICES
 1. Liquid Overfeed Systems
 2. System Practices for Halocarbon Refrigerants
 3. System Practices for Ammonia and Carbon Dioxide Refrigerants
 4. Secondary Coolants in Refrigeration Systems
 5. Refrigerant System Chemistry
 6. Control of Moisture and Other Contaminants in Refrigerant Systems
 7. Lubricants in Refrigerant Systems
 8. Refrigerant Containment, Recovery, Recycling, and Reclamation

FOOD STORAGE AND EQUIPMENT
 
 9. Thermal Properties of Foods
 10. Cooling and Freezing Times of Foods
 11. Commodity Storage Requirements
 12. Food Microbiology and Refrigeration
 13. Refrigeration Load
 14. Refrigerated-Facility Design
 15. Methods of Precooling Fruits, Vegetables, and Cut Flowers
 16. Industrial Food Freezing Systems

FOOD REFRIGERATION
 17. Meat Products
 18. Poultry Products
 19. Fishery Products
 20. Dairy Products
 21. Eggs and Egg Products
 22. Deciduous Tree and Vine Fruit
 23. Citrus Fruit, Bananas, and Subtropical Fruit
 24. Vegetables
 25. Fruit Juice Concentrates and Chilled Juice Products
 26. Beverages
 27. Processed, Precooked, and Prepared Foods
 28. Bakery Products
 29. Chocolates, Candies, Nuts, Dried Fruits, and Dried Vegetables

DISTRIBUTION OF CHILLED AND FROZEN FOOD
 30. Cargo Containers, Rail Cars, Trailers, and Trucks
 31. Marine Refrigeration
 32. Air Transport

INDUSTRIAL APPLICATIONS
 33. Insulation Systems for Refrigerant Piping
 34. Ice Manufacture
 35. Ice Rinks
 36. Concrete Dams and Subsurface Soils
 37. Refrigeration in the Chemical Industry

LOW-TEMPERATURE APPLICATIONS
 38. Cryogenics
 39. Ultralow-Temperature Refrigeration
 40. Biomedical Applications of Cryogenic Refrigeration

REFRIGERATION EQUIPMENT
 41. Absorption Cooling, Heating, and Refrigeration Equipment
 42. Forced-Circulation Air Coolers
 43. Component Balancing in Refrigeration Systems
 44. Refrigerant-Control Devices
 45. Factory Dehydrating, Charging, and Testing

UNITARY REFRIGERATION EQUIPMENT
 46. Retail Food Store Refrigeration and Equipment
 47. Food Service and General Commercial Refrigeration Equipment
 48. Household Refrigerators and Freezers

GENERAL
 49. Codes and Standards

This volume covers the basic principals and includes data essential for anyone practicing HVAC&R design or system operation by providing the latest data in thermodynamics, comfort and quality, insulation, ventilation, climatic design, thermal and moisture control and noise and vibration control.

THEORY
1. Thermodynamics and Refrigeration Cycles
2. Fluid Flow
3. Heat Transfer
4. Two-Phase Flow
5. Mass Transfer
6. Psychometrics
7. Sound and Vibration

GENERAL ENGINEERING INFORMATION
8. Thermal Comfort
9. Indoor Environmental Health
10. Environmental Control for Animals and Plants
12. Physiological Factors in Drying and Storing Farm Crops
13. Odors
14. Measurement and Instruments
15. Fundamentals of Control
16. Airflow Around Buildings

BASIC MATERIALS
17. Energy Resources
18. Combustion and Fuels
19. Refrigerants
20. Thermophysical Properties of Refrigerants
21. Physical Properties of Secondary Coolants (Brines)
22. Sorbents and Desiccants
23. Thermal and Moisture Control in Insulated Assemblies-Fundamentals
24. Thermal and Moisture Control in Insulated Assemblies-Applications
25. Thermal and Water Vapor Transmission Data
26. Insulation for Mechanical Systems

LOAD AND ENERGY CALCULATIONS
27. Ventilation and Infiltration
28. Climatic Design Information
29. Residential Cooling and Heating Load Calculations
30. Nonresidential Cooling and Heating Load Calculations
31. Fenestration
32. Energy Estimating and Modeling Methods

DUCT AND PIPE DESIGN
33. Space Air Diffusion
34. Indoor Environmental Modeling
35. Duct Design
36. Pipe Sizing

GENERAL
37. Abbreviations and Symbols
38. Units and Conversions
39. Physical Properties of Materials
40. Codes and Standards

2004 HVAC SYSTEMS AND EQUIPMENT

This volume helps system designers and operators in selecting and using equipment, by providing in-depth descriptions of features and differences of a wide variety of common systems, and the equipment (components or assemblies) that comprise them.

AIR-CONDITIONING AND HEATING SYSTEMS
1. HVAC System Analysis and Selection
2. Building Air Distribution
3. In-Room Terminal Systems
4. Central Cooling and Heating
5. Decentralized Cooling and Heating
6. Panel Heating and Cooling
7. Cogeneration Systems and Engine and Turbine Drives
8. Applied Heat Pump and Heat Recovery Systems
9. Design of Small Forced-Air Heating and Cooling Systems
10. Steam Systems
11. District Heating and Cooling
12. Hydronic Heating and Cooling System Design
13. Condenser Water Systems
14. Medium- and High-Temperature Water Heating Systems
15. Infrared Radiant Heating

AIR-HANDLING EQUIPMENT
16. Duct Construction
17. Room Air Distribution Equipment
18. Fans
19. Evaporative Air-Cooling Equipment
20. Humidifiers
21. Air-Cooling and Dehumidifying Coils
22. Desiccant Dehumidification and Pressure Drying Equipment
23. Air-Heating Coils
24. Air Cleaners for Particulate Contaminants
25. Industrial Gas Cleaning and Air Pollution Control

HEATING EQUIPMENT
26. Automatic Fuel-Burning Equipment
27. Boilers
28. Furnaces
29. Residential In-Space Heating Equipment
30. Chimney, Gas Vent, and Fireplace Systems
31. Unit Ventilators, Unit Heaters, and Makeup Air Units
32. Hydronic Heat-Distributing Units and Radiators
33. Solar Energy Equipment

GENERAL COMPONENTS
34. Compressors
35. Condensers
36. Cooling Towers
37. Liquid Coolers
38. Liquid-Chilling Systems
39. Centrifugal Pumps
40. Motors, Motor Controls, and Variable-Speed Drives
41. Pipes, Tubes, and Fittings
42. Valves
43. Heat Exchangers
44. Air-to-Air Energy Recovery

UNITARY EQUIPMENT
45. Unitary Air Conditioners and Heat Pumps
46. Room Air Conditioners and Packaged Terminal Air Conditioners
47. Mechanical Dehumidifiers and Heat Pipes